Improvement in combined scissors-sharpeners, screw-drivers, and button-hooks



G. D. DEAN.

COMBINED SCISSOR-SHARPENER, SCREW-DRIVER, AND BUTTON- HOOK.

N0.180,466. Patented Aug.1, 1876.

NPETERS, PHQTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES 1T OFFZlICE.

GEORGE D. DEAN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED SCISSORS-SHARPENERS. SCREW-DRIVERS, ANDBUTTON-HOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. E80, 166, dated August1, 1876; application filed July 14, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. DEAN, of Newark, in the county of Essexand State'of New Jersey, have invented a certain GombinedScissors-Sharpener, Screw-Driver, and Button-Hook, of which thefollowing is a specification:

My invention consists in combinipg, in a neat portable shape, ascissors-sharpener, screw-driver, and button-hook.

Figure lis a front view, showing a sharpener. Fig. 2 is a back view.Fig. 3 is a cross-section.

For a seissoissharpener I take a long piece of steel and prepare oneside, A, as a fine file; and, ordinarily, I will make the reverse sideor back, B, round, as shown particularly in Fig.3, and I make it smooth,so that when a file has been used to sharpen the scissors, the back willbe used to impart a smooth and finished edge. But it is not necessarythat this back shall be smooth or round, for a finished edge for cuttingmay be gotten by using the polished ends of the tool, either the one C,constructed as a screw-driver, or the one D, made into abutton-hook.Thus,

take out the screw holding the two sections together, or the screw getsloose andreeds' tightening, or a screw-driver is of frequent use about ahouse, and it is very properly combined with a scissorssharpener5 and,in addition, the button-hook, so much used, is combined with the former,making a very desirable tool for the work-basket. Therefore,

N hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The scissors-sharpener A, the screw-driver O, and the button-hook I),combined substantial] y as and for the purposes specified.

GEORGE D. DEAN.

Witnesses:

HORACE HARRIS, OHAs. P. RoBB.

